Baseball Encyclopedia that way: Lucky Lohrke. An amiable man, he lived with the nickname, but he never liked it, never wanted to be reminded of how close he had come to riding that bus into oblivion. But what could he do about it? In a 1994 interview with Sports Illustrated, Lohrke looked back on the tragic bus accident and said, "When you're the age I was back then, you haven't got a worry in the world. You're playing ball because you want to play-and they're giving you money to do it. And then...well, sometimes those names spring back at me. I'll tell you this: Nobody outside of baseball calls me Lucky Lohrke these days. I may have been lucky, but the name is Jack. Jack Lohrke." After Lohrke left baseball, he worked for the Lockheed Corporation in California and eventually retired as the firm's head of security. Lohrke died at a hospital in San Jose, California in 2009, two days after suffering a stroke. 'Lucky Lohrke' is mentioned in Paul Auster's 2010 novel Sunset Park. References Bibliography Spink, J. G. Taylor, ed., The 1952 Baseball Register. St. Louis: The Sporting News, 1952. External links Venezuelan Baseball League statistics 1924 births 2009 deaths United States Army personnel of World War II Baltimore Orioles (IL) players Baseball players from Los Angeles Hollywood Stars players Indios de Oriente players Jersey City Giants players Major League Baseball third basemen Navegantes del Magallanes players American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela Minor league baseball managers New York Giants (NL) players Philadelphia Phillies players Portland Beavers players San Diego Padres (minor league) players Seattle Rainiers players Spokane Indians players Baseball players from San Jose, California Tri-City Braves players Twin Falls Cowboys players United States Army soldiers